LOESTRIN FE 1.5/30 Reviews (ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; NORETHINDRONE ACETATE)Average Rating: 2.4 (711 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LOESTRIN FE 1.5/30 with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LOESTRIN FE 1.5 | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | heavy periods | while on loestrin i was happy to see that my periods had stopped completely but i was nausious all the time had cramps and started to have panic attacks and being dizzy alot blacking out and since i have stopped takin it the nausea and all has quit but my periods still have not started normally again i get spotting sometimes but that is all what has this pill done to me | F | 21 | 2 months 1X day | 12/21/2011 | 1 | BC | Acne, anxiety, moodiness, depression, bloating, headaches | I am so happy I read these ratings and know that I am not the only one. I have been taking this pill for about 8 months and although not having a period is great, the side effects are not worth it. I am always a happy person and since I have been on this pill I cry for no reason and then I can't stop. I feel depressed and tired all the time. I would NOT recommend this pill. | F | 26 | 8 months 1X day | 12/4/2011 | 3 | To regulate period | Hey there ladies I have so much to tell y'all ready? I started this birth control when I was 16 the very first week or two i was feeling very anxious,fustrated all the time, i couldnt een talk to people right it was hard for me to understand others and I had a random panic attack and symptoms of being pregnant like throwing up everymorning and my mother just pushed me and told me to stay strong and keep taking it so I did what she told me to do I kept taking it and my body finally got used to it after 4months my skin was perfect,my breast when up from an A cup to a D cup, I was always in a good mood, I was a people's person I had no trouble talking to random people anymore sex drive was normal my periods were regulated and everything I was such a happy girl all throughout highschool all of a sudden my doctor retired and I couldn't get them anymore I had to find another doctor I couldn't find one so I was off loestrin for 5mths now and I am always depressed and crying all the time,lost in conversations, I have a very low self esteem I am always putting myself down, my face isn't so perfect anymore I brake out easily now, I get easily frustrated, I've lost alot of weight, my D cups are saggy instead of being perky, I have panic attacks all the time, Ive had a massive headache for 2 weeks straight I am not how I used to be I am really thinking about getting back on it but I am afraid to see what will happen to my body and my self esteem and what if I wanna have children I don' | F | 19 | 3 years 24mg | 12/3/2011 | 1 | Birth control/ dismennorhea | Weepiness, panic attacks, depression, racing heart, restlessness, headaches, paranoia | F | 35 | 7 days 1mg/ 10mcg | 12/3/2011 | 5 | Birth Control | Wk 1 and part of wk 2- nausea, cramping, awful awful headaches. Wk 3 no more headaches, nausea, or cramping | At first (wk 1 and part of wk 2) nausea, cramping, awful awful headaches. Now on wk 3 and all of those have subsided completely! I actually feel great. I have energy and just overall feel much better emotionally and physcically! This has been my cure pill! | F | 24 | 3 weeks 1X day | 12/1/2011 | 1 | Birth Control | Severe and Persistent Anxiety, Shortness of Breath, Rapid Heartbeat, Panic Attacks, Paranoia | It started with general malaise and not sleeping so well but I was living away from home so I figured it had to be that but the symptoms didn't go away once I went back home. Then I began experiencing severe anxiety when flying or driving in a car--feeling like at any moment we would crash, imaging myself dying when there was no reason to be worried. I began to become almost hypochondriac in my severe anxiety about my health..I prayed every night I wouldn't die in my sleep, I was worried that I had somehow contracted HIV, I began to take sleep-aides because I slept so poorly and my heart felt like it was fluttering and I couldn't breathe. My behavior changed as I couldn't concentrate at work for any more than five minutes and I had trouble even sitting still long enough to finish dinner at the dining room table. I felt like I had to be constantly moving and couldn't relax. I have had panic attacks about things I would never have worried about before or only worried about in a normal way. The worst thing for me was feeling like I was going crazy, I began seeing a therapist convinced (due to my hypochondria-like mentality) that I was suffering from symptoms of Schizophrenia and the "depersonalization" I was experiencing (one effect of extreme anxiety in which you feel like you are seeing yourself from the outside) only made that worse. A woman on another forum suggested we take action by filing a class action lawsuit against the company that makes loestrin for not w | F | 23 | 10 months 1X day | 11/22/2011 | 5 | Contraceptive | None | I haven't had any problems with this birth control at all. I recently was taking Aviane and I absolutely HATED it. Aviane made me extremely anxious all the time, I almost took myself to the hospital because I was having such horrible anxiety attacks. So my doctor switched me to Lo Loestrin and I'm back to my old self, I've had zero side effects, no problems whatsoever. I read other ratings on it and a lot of women seem to really hate this drug, but like I said - no side effects. I love it compare to my last one. | F | 19 | 3 months 1 1X day | 10/19/2011 | 1 | Preventing Pregnancy/ovarian cyst | Severe nausea, throwing the first day after the night I took my first dose, extreme anxiety, nervousness, cystic acne flareup, immediate enlarged and sore breasts, extreme fatigue and dizziness, severe cramping and bloating | I am not one to complain about stuff, but I have never been this sick from taking a medication. I took my first dose on a Sunday night, and the next day after taking the medication I was constantly in the bathroom all day long throwing up. I feel like I have gained a ton of weight in just two days after taking this even though I have not been wanting to eat due to the extreme nausea. I feel like my abdomen is very swollen and just want to curl up in a ball all day. Luckily, I work at from home and was able to keep a bucket next to me all day. If I worked in the office, I would not have made it to work. I am stopping this immediately. I have always had acne, and was getting it under control pretty well until I started this. Now within a couple of days, I have five huge pimples in the form of cystic acne. (the ones that almost hurt to look at!) My breasts have already gone up one cup size in two days! They hurt and I am wearing a sports bra to help with the pain. I am praying this wears off in a couple of days. I can't live another day feeling like I do!!!!! Ugh!!! To anyone that has tried this and it works, great! I can't do it. | F | 29 | 2 days 1.5/30 1X day | 10/18/2011 | 4 | Birth control | You must give this pill time to work with your body! The first 2 months of taking this I didn't have any periods then on the third month my period came. At first my emotions were all over the place crying all the time getting upset for no reason and feeling depressed. Im on my fourth month now and I have to say things have definitely improved!! Just stick out the first few months and hopefully it will work for you as it has for me :) Good luck | If the pill inst for you just go to your GP and try another as it wont work the same for everyone...We are all different after all. P.S don't be worried by all the really scary reviews on here, remember! there are side effects to every medication that is prescribed. | F | 19 | 4 months 30 1X day | 10/11/2011 | 1 | birth control | immediately had sleep issues, paranoia and was very emotional!! | F | 25 | 2 months 1mg 1X day | 9/21/2011 | 2 | Birth Control | loss of libido, weight gain, irritability | loestrin made me never want to have sex, ever. it made me sort of disgusted with sex, and my partner, and it even made me feel like i didn't even want to be touched. i also gained quite a bit of weight that i'm still trying to work off. | F | 20 | 1 years 1X day | 8/29/2011 | 1 | Acne (on my face neck and chest), hypersexuality (fun at first then innapropriate) and mood swings. | Don't take this medication. It made me act like a freak and look like one too. It's horrible. | F | 35 | 2 months 1X day | 8/24/2011 | 1 | regulate period | breast tenderness, nausea, rapid heartbeat, depressed, mood swings, cramps, constant bleeding | this was the worst 2 months ever. i only wish i called my doctor after the first month but was trying to give it time. people do love this pill, but it did not love me. i just switched to yasmin. fingers crossed. | F | 33 | 60 days 1X day | 8/17/2011 | 4 | My cramps are horrible. I be come so EMOTIONAL all i do is cry ugh. One minutie im happy the next i be pissed off i recommend no birth control! | F | 17 | 4 months 1X day | 8/16/2011 | 1 | Anger, paranoia, low self esteem, depression | I am relieved to find this could be the source of my problem. I am not taking this pill anymore and will be seeing my Dr within the month for further diagnosis. This pill may work well to prevent pregnancy but if I lose my mind and marriage over it because of the depression, it is not worth it. Something kept telling me thee was a problem with these pills but until reading these testimonies I felt it was just me! This came about slowly but has gotten to the point of suicidal feelings. Ladies it is not worth it. Take with caution and listen to your body and intuition. This medicine should be banned. | F | 31 | 18 months 1X day | 8/11/2011 | 2 | period regulation | Massive increase in appetite, trouble sleeping | Originally went back on the pill in to help regulate my periods and to help with excruciating cramps I've dealt with since a teenager. Started with Avaine and then Loestrin 1/20, neither of which worked since there wasn't enough estrogen to stop break through bleeding. I seriously don't understand why doctors even rec those pills, 20mcg seems like WAAY too little to be effective. After that I was given the generic Junel 1.5/30, which was much better in terms of break thru bleeding, even if I did have some minor cramping most of the month. The major problem for me, though, was the MASSIVE increase in hunger and sleep problems. I am ALWAYS hungry, usually to the point of feeling pysically ill if I don't eat something NOW. Normally, I can't eat as soon as I wake up (about an hr later), but I wake up feeling so sick with hunger that it's the first thing I reach for. And I often wake up around 4am no matter what time I go to bed, 10pm or 1am, doesn't matter. I don't get enough sleep, so I'm always tired. Since I'm a person that really needs 8-9 hours of sleep a night to function normally, and nicely, the following day I just can't take another night of this. I'm willing to put up with the somewhat irregular and/or painful periods in order to keep my sanity. | F | 32 | 4 months 1X day | 8/10/2011 | 1 | Birth Control/Needed Low Estrogen | Anxiety, Depression, OCD flare ups, weight gain, hopelessness, moodiness | I was SO glad to know I wasn't alone, although I feel for all the other ladies who've suffered through the experience of taking this pill. In the past, I've suffered from OCD, with it acting during early adolescents. Now, at 24, and having been on this pill, it's getting severe again. Also, I find myself sad and hopeless - this is not like me. I do not feel like myself at all. I HATE THIS PILL. I'm on it because it was the only combination pill that contained low estrogen. I had ONE complex migraine in the last year, and my health care provider wanted to take me off estrogen altogether due to risk of stroke. What is a risk of stroke compared to a risk of suicide? Not that I am or would consider such a drastic measure, but this pill is far too dangerous. I hope it gets pulled off the market. | F | 24 | 4 months 1X day | 7/28/2011 | 1 | Birth control | Depression, lack of libido, social anxiety, bloating and weight gain. | ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!! Was not sure if I needed to see a therapist for possible depression issues, but after doing research online on the side effects of this birth control, I know for sure it is the culprit. | F | 21 | 4 months 1X day | 7/26/2011 | 2 | contraceptive | no periods, dizziness, headaches, sinus headaches(feels like sinus infection),tiredness,increased appetite | I went on this pill 2 months after I had my second son.The first month being on this pill wasn't so bad. Then I noticed all of the my side effects. I actually thought I was pregnant. I took a test to make sure (I wasn't..thank god!) Now I feel competely exhausted...Ihave to nap just to make it thru the day. I feel like I have a sinus infection without the congestion and runny nose..lol. I feel like I am in another persons body. I will finish my pack to see if the side effects subside. FYI ...all the girls I work with who take this pill too are experiencing the same things! | F | 31 | 6 weeks 1X day | 7/25/2011 | 3 | uterine fibroids, PSOS, hydroentini | extreme fatique, headaches, sinus infection, | 3 weeks of heavy bleeding in the first month, bad sinus infection, and spotting in the second month. have not monitored my weight. | F | 25 | 2 months 10mg 1X day | 7/8/2011 |